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• It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

  Richard Myers

  Troops, Kind, Combat

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• To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

  Srinivasa Ramanujan

  Food, Science, Brain

  Srinivasa Ramanujan (2015). “Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Knowledge, Science

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• Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

  Gideon Glick

  Play, Challenges, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Pain, Yoga, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Doors, Bird

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Men, Want

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• One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Experience, Taste, Genuine

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Gossip, Mind, Let It Go

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• Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hero, Ideas, Worship

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.81, Penguin

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• I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

  Peter Gay

  Strong, Past, Work Out

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• In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

  Chris Hadfield

  Views, Advice, Criticism

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

  Joan Miro

  Example, Littles, Chance

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• What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

  Alfie Kohn

  Caring, Knowing, Psychologist

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• And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.

  Larry Winget

  Real, Keys, Helping

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• HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
  LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
  HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

  Mike Tyson

  Fire, Mma, Use

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• As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Actors, Helping

  "Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson Talk The Other Boleyn Girl". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have. Setting up different characters in different relationships is always helpful as you move forward.

  Rob McElhenney

  Fun, Moving Forward, Character

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.

  Chris Pratt

  Sweet, Stars, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.

  Elia Kazan

  Guy, The Waterfront, Producers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  Dan Ariely

  Football, Cheating, Motivation

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• You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.

  Irving Kahn

  Discipline, Needs, Return

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• Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Swings, Practice

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• I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.

  Walter Mischel

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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